Bug#569785: iceweasel: Please don't use homepage_override / welcome page; user not necessarily admin/developer

[Josh Triplett]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 08:21:06PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:13:00AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> <snip>
> > A quick look at the debian-devel-announce archives didn't turn up any
> > mails asking for help; have you considered sending one?
> 
> I've sent several call for helps on my blog and debian-devel ; I also
> did a BoF at Debconf 9, where the idea of "nagging" was suggested.

As I understand it, debian-devel-announce draws a lot more attention
than debian-devel, given relative volume and subscription.  I think for
a package like Iceweasel you can easily justify poking it. :)  It seems
worth a shot, anyway.

> > Please reconsider your use of upstream's nag-on-upgrade facility for
> > this purpose.
> 
> Please note that the nag-on-upgrade facility won't be triggered on
> stable systems, except after a dist-upgrade from lenny to squeeze.
> 
> The idea is also to get unstable users to actually report problems and
> help improve what will end up in stable.

If this message will almost never appear to stable users, that will
greatly help; much appreciated.

In the meantime, if this message will stick around, I guess I'd better
get to improving it. ;)

- Josh Triplett